The highlight of the day for Cox? Having freshly fried pakoras made with the jute plant! “They were delicious and I gobbled up quite a few of them,” he laughed. The evening was far more pleasant with the entire crew heading to the Tollygunge Club. “The idea of filming at the club was to capture what the social life of the Scots living in the city must have been like,” ventured Archer. Top) Brian Cox on the Scottish Cemetery premises. Picture by Aranya Sen. (below) The crew shoot at the Tollygunge Club

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Brian said: "In the Fifties, there were these people who left Dundee to go and invigorate the jute industry in India. With India’s partition in 1947, the best quality jute-growing areas fell into East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), tantalisingly out of reach for Calcutta’s jute mills. In the orgy of violence that befell the countries in the wake of that great sundering, the Dundonian Jutewallahs found themselves protected behind their compound walls, defended by stalwart Gurkhas. Shortly thereafter, the Indian government issued directives that more and more locals should be employed in positions that were held by Europeans. Many Jutewallahs thought that the mills would collapse once they left and the Indians took over; the know-how, after all, was with them and not the natives. There was a mass exodus of expatriates out of Bengal, and by the early 1950s, most of Calcutta’s mills had passed into Indian ownership. The budding actor headed to London in the 1960s, and has gone on to forge himself a career that has led to him being regarded as one of the best in the country. There are still some unanswered questions for me. One of the questions that the programme only touches on is how did these people - most of whom were men - learn to spin and weave?Dundee is proud to have produced Hollywood star Brian Cox. The city is his life’s primary constant. He was raised in the midst of the bustle of the jute mills, where both of his parents got their start. messages and online donations to Parkinson's UK, please visit https://antoniogonsalves.muchloved.com/ On one hand, jute gave people a whole new life, but at the same time it also reduced life for many people, and gave them a really tough time," he said. The film also touches on the taboo, as it was at the time, of Anglo-Indian relationships - and Dundee's dual status as the UK's whaling capital as well as having one of the country's biggest populations of females per capita. Brian said: "My family history is bound up in jute. My parents followed their parents into the mills but the closest I got was as a wee boy, peering through the open doors of the Eagle JuteWorks on a hot summer's day.

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Edited by Eddie Fernandes [email protected] 5 Queen Mothers Drive, Denham Garden Village, UB9 5GA Episodes 4 hours ago Secrets of the Royal Palaces: Love and Marriage (Channel 5 Saturday 4 November 2023) May: Gomantak Times. A bleak future for Goa’s taxi drivers. Metred taxis, Mopa airport, post-pandemic woes prevail… “Now that we have fitted metres, the government without consulting us decides to create an app for us and to be operated by us. Unfortunately, they forgot that it should have been thought of by us,” says Anthony, taxi driver from South Goa… The labour of the Indian workmen was far harder. Day in and day out they toiled in torrid heat and corrosive dust. Discipline was harsh in the mills. As long as they worked hard and were punctual, they had jobs. If not, well, there were millions others desperate for a job, any job. Just as in Dundee decades earlier, the conditions and support for Indian workers in Calcutta were dire. There were no tribunals, no unions, no reprieve.You see that in the people who went out there - they were up for an adventure. For me it was to go south and become an actor. Dundee had one of the best theatres in the country but I didn't properly appreciate that at the time." I use Stevenson's great saying: 'I travel not to go anywhere but instead to go, the great affair is to move...' can be accessed using this link: https://www.churchservices.tv/thorntonheath Committal: 2.15 pm at Croydon It was exhilarating to see Hindus and Muslims working together in such harmony. In fact, jute for me is a metaphor for binding. We even discovered a mosque and a temple standing side by side in the vicinity of one mill,” said Cox.

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The penultimate day saw the crew leave the hotel early, only to spend half the day crammed in their cars in the intense heat. “We got lost! And when we found our way out, there were endless traffic jams. It was really frustrating,” lamented Cox. Finally the crew proceeded to the banks of the Hooghly for a few hours of filming the barges filled with mounds of jute. “Like the other days, the heat sapped all our energy,” rued Archer. The industry endured a steady decline from the 1870s onwards, prompting many workers to migrate from the east coast of Scotland to the south of Asia.Next month, we'll see one of Dundee's most famous sons follow in their footsteps in a voyage of discovery. My ancestors came from Fermanagh to Dundee to work in the jute mills. So many people in the mills were Scottish crofters or Irish farmers who came to Dundee for work. May: Herald. Traffic chaos along the Parra 'Madani' road. The residents of Parra are grappling with a recurring problem of traffic chaos and tourist parking issues along the famous Parra Coconut Tree Road, also known as Madani Road or the "Dear Zindagi Road" among tourists… The jute barons made a fortune out of these people. They gave them work, which allowed them to have houses and so on, but Dundee still had the worst child poverty in history at the time - and these people were living half a mile away from some of the richest people in the world." The actor remembers the last days of the jute industry, and considers the pioneering spirit of the jute emigrants to be something he has in common with them.

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After spending the entire morning on the church premises, the crew took a lunch break and then proceeded to the Scottish Cemetery in Park Circus in the hope of finding the graves of Scots who had lived in Calcutta, made it their home for over a hundred years, and were buried in the city. Episodes 4 hours ago Rich House, Poor House: Julie, Jazz and Catia (Channel 5 Sunday 5 November 2023) of Natalya, Sienna and Fabrizio. Loving brother to late Edwiges, late Joseph/late Anna, late Valente/late Rita, late Martin/Gisha and late Cursino/Millie. Caring uncle to Dennis/Imma, Doris/Ludo, Late David, Derek/Mabel, Brian, Leslie and Thomas/Emma and Michelle and all their children. The Marwaris, business-oriented clans from Rajasthan, became the new kings of jute. They had been involved in India’s jute industry from the very beginning, but they continued to employ Dundonians as managers. Interaction between the Scots and the Indians increased substantially. The Jutewallahs trained up Indian colleagues; in some conservative mills, however, there were still lines that could not be crossed. Several of them who fell in love with Indian women found themselves fired from their jobs.For many of them, the move to India paved the way for a lavish lifestyle of parties and luxurious living. For others, it was the end of the road.